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Surprise and Chagrin. Convinced that there will soon be a critical shortage of capital, Bentsen has introduced a bill to encourage more investment. The bill provides for a scaling down of the 35% capital gains tax. The longer an asset is held, the less it would be taxed when it is sold. After 15 years, the tax would be trimmed to 14%. The bill also increases from $1,000 to $4,000 the maximum yearly write-off of capital losses...
...consumed with lust, to his own shuddering surprise and chagrin, but he does not bridle his concupiscent deskes. He issues a quid pro quo: Isabella's virginity for her brother's life. She is appalled and rather loftily tells Claudio to be resigned to his death. She is not what she seems, for to a Christian no defiling of the body can remotely affect the integrity of the soul...
...that has brought him under considerable Arab criticism, Sadat has so far been disappointed by the meager returns. He staged a festive welcome for Nixon in Cairo last year and in return was grandly promised $250 million in aid and a nuclear reactor. To Sadat's chagrin, Congress delayed action on Nixon's promises. Moreover, Congress was giving "my good friend Henry," as Sadat has come to call Kissinger, a great deal of trouble. First Congress challenged his policies on Turkey and the Soviet Union, then two weeks ago no fewer than 76 Senators signed a letter advocating...
Harvard, as a non-profit institution, has been free from taxation, to the chagrin of local tenants and small homeowners who claim they must shoulder an unfair proportion of the property tax burden...
When Barnaby last discarded his tennis apparel, he did so with a bit of chagrin. The 1974 Harvard tennis team had not lived up to his preseason expectations, finishing fourth in the Ivy League, but Barnaby's inclinations were to blame neither the team nor its schedule. Instead, the godfather of catgut vent his wrath in the direction of God. And with good reason...